Illegal Music Downloading Documentary

Production Log Week 12: Graphics

Graphics

2 out of 8 scenes were graphics in my documentary so I spent most of this week constructing my graphics in iMovie. The first graphical features were to do with the history of illegal music downloading. I managed to run a voiceover over this scene By gathering together images such as download software, facts and figures and logos.




The second graphical scene featured a quiz. To entertain my audience I made a scene using Microsoft PowerPoint and designed graphics that were exactly the same to "Who wants to be a millionaire". I made up an interactive quiz that asked the audience questions about certain facts and figures to do with illegal music downloading. I also ran a voiceover on this scene as I could ask the audience the questions with the graphics responding to my answers. Arranging the graphics were really difficult, when I tried to move them in certain locations of my documentary, they all ended up in different places.



I also used some graphics in the cutaways that I edited in the last scene. This included changing the colour of the interviews to black and white to make them look more effective, speeding them up and running a voiceover to make it sound as though I was summarizing my documentary.

March Production Schedule

Gervaise Mar Prod Schedule

Production Log Week 11: Editing

Editing

Now that I have received some feedback on the rough edit of my documentary, I could now put together the full version of other things that I have not included yet such as cutaways. I decided to feature cutaways in the interviews of my documentary. I chose to have them in my interviews because it helped with the pace of my documentary and made it look more relevant for the visual of my topic. The main advantage was that I had filmed the radio one presenter's awards and other props in his studio. This indicated to me that I could use these as cutaways to introduce him or even when he explains a certain topic.

As I have three interviews contributing in my documentary, I did not have to record a voiceover to ask the questions to my interviewee. However I added a voiceover to the remaining two of my interviews. This was simply because I did not ask my interviewee the questions when the camera was framed on them. Instead I asked my interviewee the question with the camera focused on me. To save time I ended up cutting myself out of myself in the interview to save time.

Production Log Week 10: Presentation

Presentation

Throughout this week I have been editing my documentary. However this was only a rough edited version of my documentary so that I could show my class and teacher what I had put together so far. The class was responsible for writing down what their opinion was on my documentary and after it was finished give feedback. I received some feedback that consisted of negative and positive points. The negative side was based on the fact that I did not have much in make my documentary interactive to my audience. The audience felt that this would have made my documentary much more engaging. Another point was that there was not a lot of exposition in my documentary making this very unsecure.

However on the plus side my audience thought my documentary had a humorous mode of address at the start which would have made them feel welcome to the documentary. They also thought it was well structured in terms of conventions such as the interviews. My interviewees gave me a lot of useful information that my audience enjoyed listening to and the fact that I managed to get hold of real people with real opinions made my documentary about illegal music downloading more genuine.

Overall this has taught me that I need to mention more facts and figures as well as something more fun to make my documentary more engaging to the audience. The fact that the topic I chose was about illegal music downloading meant that everyone from any gender, ethnicity or even religion can be involved by expressing their views on the topic.

My February Production Schedule

Gervaise Feb Prod Schedule

Production Log Week 9: Voxpops (Refilmed)

Vox-pops

This week I spent my time asking teenagers aged 16-18 what their opinion is on illegal music downloading. I decided to film in Romford South Street because this was a really busy place where I was sure to find teenagers of all genders and ethnicity's. At first I found it hard to find a place where it looked suitable to film and place where I wouldn't get in anyone way. I also found it hard to ask random people to give their opinion on illegal music downloading as a majority of them were either too busy or did not want to appear on camera.

I ended up getting 9 vox-pops all together. This boosted my confidence as I managed to use someone that gained a lot of attention toward the area I was filming in. The fact that I managed to gather contributors that were of both genders and ethnicity's made my documentary a lot more balanced and made this documentary aimed towards everyone and not just one specific target audience. All of the teenagers that contributed gave qualitative and quantitative answers that would give my audience that I am trying to educate a better understanding of how a group of 16-18 year olds truthfully feel about illegal music downloading

Production Log Week 8: Closing sequence and interview

Closing sequence and Radio one interview

I spent this week filming the closing sequence of my documentary. This involved the presenter filming at his house. I reason why I decided to use a living room was because it is a place that is quite informal and is a place where 16-18 year olds live with their parents. At the end of my documentary the presenter concludes what he has found out for his audience and then sit on a sofa and relaxes. I used a dolly to track backwards as the presenter walks towards the camera, this is to make the documentary more active rather than static. I also did this as the presenter is meant to turn on his DVD player by the TV and relax.

I also managed to set up an interview with a radio 1 DJ. To prove he was genuine, I filmed lots of creditials and awards that he has won and various other things in the studio including a banner, computer and DJ decks. I planned to have a voiceover followed by quick cutaways of the awards and props to introduce my interviewee. The radio one DJ produced a lot of useful information that would educate my audience about statistics and facts about the music industry. The shots were very well framed and looked professional which was ideal when I came to edit it.